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contort

/kənˈtɔːt/

US pronunciation
American sound/kənˈtɔːt/
kənˈtɔːt
Syllables
2 syllables
Stress
2nd syllable stress
Vowel
Aw vowel
Ending
Clear final sound

kən - ˈtɔːt -> contort

Myanmar meaning

(v) လိမ်တွန့်စေသည်။ပုံပန်းပျက်စေသည်။

Full entry

contort /kǝn'tↄ:t/ v

~ (sth) (with sth) (esp passive)
(ပင်ကို ပုံပန်းပျက်သွားလောက်အောင်) တွန့်လိမ်ကောက်ကွေးသည်။ ရှုံ့သည်။ ယင်းသို့ဖြစ်စေသည်။ Her face contorted/was contorted with pain. ❍ His face contorted, then relaxed.
❏ contorted adj
(က) တွန့်လိမ် ကောက်ကွေးသော။ ရှုံ့သော။ contorted branches/limbs. ❍ (fig ) The statement is a highly contorted version of the truth.
❏ contortion /kǝn'tↄ:ʃn/ n
(က) [U] (မျက်နှာ) တွန့်ရှုံ့နေသော အနေအထား။ (ခန္ဓာကိုယ်) ခေါက် ကွေးထားသော အနေအထား။ (ခ) [C] ယင်းသို့လုပ်ပြခြင်း။ perform a series of yoga contortions.
❏ contortionist /-ʃǝnÇst/ n ခြေ၊ လက်၊ ခန္ဓာကို ကျွမ်းကျင်စွာ ခွေခေါက်ကွေးညွှတ်လိမ်ယှက်တတ်သူ။ ယင်းကျွမ်းကျင်မှုကို အံဩဖွယ်အဖြစ် ပြသဖျော်ဖြေသူ။

More examples
  • A grimace of pain contorted her face.
  • [contort with] : His face contorted with fury.
Synonyms
twist, screw up, warp, bend, convolute, curve, deform, disfigure, distort, gnarl, grimace, knot, misshape, screw, torture, wind, wrench, writhe
Antonyms
beautify, smooth, straighten
Cross references
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